Example sentences of "as surely as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a part of her intention in coming here to banish those shades : already it seemed they were darkening her mind as surely as they still lowered across her father 's . |
| 2 | But all regimes must end , just as surely as we will die : though we do n't like to face it , any more than we like to face death . |
| 3 | Yet life is a dream-metaphor , which we create just as surely as we create our dreams — and our Higher Self will often communicate through ‘ mundane ’ everyday events . |
| 4 | Peta and Isobel fell in love with the place as surely as we have and they , like us , concentrated on the commonplace . |
| 5 | It would take a musical analysis to find out whether the offerings to which these two extremes respond are really worlds apart ’ ( Adorno 1976 : 13 ) , we know that the question implied in the final sentence has already been answered in his own mind , just as surely as we know that he has not done the musical analysis but simply conflated Elvis and … whom ? |
| 6 | While the greening of the electorate was rapidly taken aboard and she was impressed by the fact that acid rain could damage international relations as surely as it did stonework and trees , what caught her imagination were the profound implications of what was happening to the chemistry of the deeper atmosphere . |
| 7 | Protectionist policies , designed to deal with unemployment , temporarily ended the rule of the Conservative Party at the end of 1923 just as surely as it helped the Conservative Party to political dominance in the 1930s . |
| 8 | The great agricultural revolution of our own times , in which drainage has played no small part , has accelerated the decline of the small farmer just as surely as it has imperilled the ecological system previously sustained by communal wetland management ; and , at the last , it has begun to destroy the basic resources of the land , as ever deeper drainage has created mineral problems in the soil , wastage of peat , and an increasing dependence upon pumping . |
| 9 | And if a few romantics mutter against the ‘ satanic mills ’ , despoliation of the countryside and pollution of the skies from the factory chimneys , the machine shunts them aside as surely as it repulses those Luddites who would shut down its engines if they only knew how . |
| 10 | The last author commented ‘ increasing numbers of Americans have become aware that crime exists in the suites of many corporations just as surely as it exists in the streets of their cities and suburbs ’ . |
| 11 | Plutocracy inevitably governs the arts , it was suggested , as surely as it governs the terms of the trade . |
| 12 | New life , green as the holly leaf , was at work inside him as surely as it stirred inside his wife . |
| 13 | Consciousness exacted its price : as surely as it increased freedom so it diminished it . |
| 14 | And yet … there had been a moment when Dane 's undeniable magnetism had reached out to her , too , ensnaring her in its thrall just as surely as it captured every other female . |
| 15 | I smell it as surely as I smell a knocked off car , a crooked log book . |
| 16 | As surely as I live , declares the Sovereign Lord , you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel . |
| 17 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 18 | Maybe she could have surfeited him with pleasure as surely as she could have overwhelmed him with agony . |
| 19 | She knew that as surely as she knew she would never get to the rave in Woodham Woods . |
| 20 | Telling him would be a mistake , she knew that , just as surely as she knew he would never tell her what he really felt , but she knew . |
| 21 | Hendrix 's vocals had an almost hypnotic effect , an effect which Randy Hansen has captured with uncanny accuracy , as surely as he has emulated the sound of Jimi 's guitar . |
| 22 | ‘ He killed Robin just as surely as he murdered Marion . |
| 23 | ‘ Sir Alexander Gibson , a seasoned conductor of the work , paces this ‘ Butterfly ’ with complete feeling , rising to its emotional peaks as surely as he responds to its moments of delicacy ’ . |